Molten Salt
Inspired by early Tuxedomoon’s bittersweet melodies, Negativland’s angular collage attacks, looseness of Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel House of Leaves and the mind-boggling short films by John Smith, here is… Pakasteet with Charles Hayward! Imagine A.I. amalgamating the last avant-hard sonicists of a future-past
for the final anthem: that mad dance of a civilization lost in sunshine
ruin. Pakasteet: the frozen section of the space formerly known as the
supermarket. Blender. Tannoy. The void has…
Commercial Album : Preserved Edition
Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have been charting a unique
path through the musical landscape for over 45 years. From far-out,
experimental recordings to highly conceptual, innovative multi-platform
projects, the band has refused to stand still, and continues to move in
several different directions at once. But you probably already knew
that. Produced with The Cryptic Corporation using archival tapes
supplied by The Residents themselves, this package explores and expands
the cla…
Eskimo
Produced with The Cryptic Corporation using archival tapes supplied by The Residents themselves, this package explores and expands the classic 1979 album -- the record which brought The Residents to a wider, international audience. Including an acapella suite, live in the studio recordings, related unreleased recordings, the 'Goosebump' and 'Replacement' projects and live tracks, this is The Residents as we've always wanted to hear them. Bonus material includes unheard 1978 Demo, album acapellas…
Today, The Organ Has Played Beautifully Again
William Engelen (born 1964 in Weert, The Netherlands) is a sound and visual artist living and working in Berlin. After having studied visual arts, his focus shifted over time from solely visual to multi-disciplinary works that oscillate between sound and visual arts, between exhibition and performance, and incorporate installation, sculptural, and compositional elements. He now considers himself a conceptual artist who works with sound. Many of his works are site-specific and have been presented…
Black Trees
Recorded in Paris in 2014. Ame Son was a progressive rock band from France. They are notable for being featured on the Nurse With Wound list. Members of Ame Son also were in the band Red Noise and Komintern. Formed by Marc Blanc and Patrick Fontaine. Both were members of the first line-up of Banana Moon (the band that later would become Gong). Their debut album Catalyse was released by BYG in 1970. Ame Son is Marc Blanc, François Garrel, Romeo Blanc, and Bernard Lavialle. Edition of 500.
Japanese Indies Music 1976-1989: A History and Guide
In process of restock. Dokkiri! tells the history of a remarkable complex of musical subcultures that developed in Japan from the mid-1970s. Starting with a discussion of the earliest rumblings of punk and new wave, all types of independently produced music are covered in more detail than has ever appeared in English before. Punk, Art music, Noise, Psychedelic, experimental and more. "This book fills in the gaps in my own appreciation of the Japanese independent music scene and provides context …
Rare Ravers
LP version. "Disguised as the meandering outpourings of vacant thought and activity dialed simultaneously from zero and ten. Formed in the cauldron of a fevered mistake resolute. Surrounded by ignorance, dis-interest, and the attention of the carefully self-selected. Recorded and burned through a thousand galaxies of dust and doubt and endless infinite wonder, transforming both time and space. Forever exiled to the very bottom of the world to reflect on the struggling desperate pile above. Recog…
Spaces . An Hour For Piano
Performed by Keiko Shichijo. Tom Johnson's An Hour for Piano was written in 1971. The piece began as a series of short, improvisatory sketches in 1967 when Johnson was accompanying a modern dance class at New York University. Johnson gradually expanded these sketches and added transitions between them, writing a piece that is to be played in exactly one hour. Achieving this goal requires an absolutely steady tempo for the duration of the piece, which Johnson has set at quarter note = 59.225 beat…
Socrate
Beautiful rendering of French composer Eric Satie's 1918 masterwork "Socrate", originally for four sopranos and chamber orchestra, here stripped to its essence as a duo with Olalla Aleman on soprano and Guy Vandromme on piano, maintaining Satie's characterist reserve and refinement in the 3 parts: "portrait of socrates"; "banks of the ilissus"; and "death of socrates".
Mundanas I - V
The title mundana comes from Boethius' (427-524 AD) printed work on ancient Greek music: De institutione musica. John McCowen is a New York based composer and performer whose work focuses on extending the possibilities of the clarinet family. John embraces long-form drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to extrude the dimensionality within - treating the clarinet as an acoustic synthesizer. His works for ensemble utilize spectral techniques to superimpose the timbral/sonic c…
This Is Not A Lament
Return of Richard Youngs to Fourth Dimension, a label that has supported his work since the early 1990s via collaborations with Simon Wickham-Smith. The latter returns to this set, based around the notion of songs featuring special guests. Spread over the two discs, the eleven songs here assume all manner of sonic guises that are often difficult or sometimes blissed-out, but always rewarding. Most include guests, themselves from a wide variety of backgrounds (taking in all from groups such as Tr…
Un Lloc entre Dos Records
Un lloc entre dos records stands as the third piece in Ferran Fages’s trilogy for guitar and sinetones, plunging listeners into an environment of memory, duration, and pure perception. Composed and performed by the Catalan musician on Another Timbre, the work deconstructs traditional guitar sonority, instead proposing a landscape shaped by precise tunings, persistent resonance, and the interplay of acoustics with brief, pure electronic sinewaves. Fages draws on the legacy of Morton Feldman, Alvi…
Aftermaths
Aftermaths assembles a series of solo piano meditations from Mark R Taylor, each miniature realized with extraordinary nuance by pianist Teodora Stepančić. Taylor’s writing gathers its force not from spectacle, but from distilled detail, calibrated pacing, and a disciplined embrace of small form. The works—ranging from twelve-second “flashes” to pieces that stretch over nine minutes - invite a listening experience grounded in patience, repetition, and subtle surprise. Taylor leverages the piano’…
Lines and Tracings
Lines and Tracings documents the unique meeting of American experimentalist Michael Pisaro and Boston-based composer-performer Morgan Evans-Weiler, realized with the forward-thinking ensemble Ordinary Affects. Through two expansive works, the album melds field recording, slow-motion counterpoint, and Wandelweiser-influenced reduction, opening vast temporal landscapes for the listener. Pisaro’s composition foregrounds resonance and contingency, using glacially-paced lines and occasional electroni…
Rosso Napoletano Rework
400 copies in black vinyl. After 44 years, the real masterpiece Tony Esposito's Rosso Napoletano sees the light again with this marvellous 13-minutes rework by Mushrooms Project
Une Autre Version de Territory
On of the latest release on the ever-excellent Standard In-Fi (the imprint run by France's Jeremie Sauvage), with the help of Mental Groove, is this incredible beaturing double bass, lapsteel, bagpipes, guitar, violin, percussions... With musicians also playing in bands such as Toad, France, Sourdure or Abat. Far-out instrumental stuff with killer sound
Solo Guitar Volume 2-1/3
"Eugene Chadbourne is one of the great guitar players of the modern era. At the time he began recording in Canada in 1975, his music was a unique syncretic formulation. While its most obvious component was free improvisation in a style then most widely associated with English and European players, his music also contained elements of jazz, country, folk, blues, psychedelic and international sounds, referencing these threads in ways that were so diverse and intensely personalized it would take sc…
Solo Guitar Volume 1-1/3
"Eugene Chadbourne is one of the great guitar players of the modern era. At the time he began recording in Canada in 1975, his music was a unique syncretic formulation. While its most obvious component was free improvisation in a style then most widely associated with English and European players, his music also contained elements of jazz, country, folk, blues, psychedelic and international sounds, referencing these threads in ways that were so diverse and intensely personalized it would take sc…
Playing Moondog\'s Music
2019 repress. Recorded in 1955, released on his own short-lived Moondog label. 4 tracks of manic saxophone and snare drum mayhem. You will not find an original of this anywhere. Blind from the age of 17, classically trained in music, Moondog aka Louis Hardin left the countryside in the late 1940s to busk on the streets of New York, playing percussion instruments of his own creation. He later became the darling of the NY arts and music set. He also recorded for Folkways, Woody Herman's Mars label…
Moondog and His Friends
2019 repress. Originally released in 1953, this collection of very early Moondog pieces features the same tribal rhythmic impulse as his famed Prestige recordings, but there's an impressive line in chamber music running through these compositions. It's a fantastic collection of recordings from the eccentric genius that was
Moondog. This mini-album features Moondog's pioneering techniques in
tape overdubbing -- he harmonises with himself on voice, double bass and
home-made drums. Touches of h…